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OU Libraries’ History of Science digital collection began with several hundred 15th- through 18th-century rare books, maps, and other items digitized for the 2015-2016 Galileo’s World exhibition. They range from art, music, astronomy, and meteorology through natural history, the human body, microscopy, physics, and engineering, and on to religion and travels to China and the Americas. All images in the digital collection have been released to the public domain. When using images from this collection, please include the following attribution statement: Image(s) courtesy History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.

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Archimedis Syracvsani philosophi et mathematici ingeniosissimi, per Nicolaum Tartaleam ... multis erroribus emendata ..., Imprint from colophon.
Sphaera mundi.
Cichi Esculani cum textu.--Expositio Joannis Baptiste Capuani in eandem.--Jacobi Fabri Stapulensis.--Theodosij De speris.--Michaelis Scoti.--Qõnes reuerẽdissimi dñi Petri de Aliaco [et]c.--Roberti Linchoniensis Compendium.--Tractatus de sphera solida.--Tractatus de sphera Campani.--Tractatus de computo maiori eiusdem.--Disputatio Joannis de Monte Regio.--Textus theorice [Georgii Purbachii] cũ expõne Joãnis Baptiste Capuani.--Ptolomeus De speculis., Includes Sacro Bosco's Sphere and various commentaries on it, as well as other works on the sphere., Originally edited by Hieronymus de Nuciarellis., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: A⁴ B-2F⁸ 2G⁶ (2G6 blank), Double columns., Initials; side notes., Woodcut illustration of armillary sphere on leaf 4b., Printer's mark (Kristeller 286) on leaf 253b [i.e. 232], Numbers 181-200 omitted in foliation., Leaf 97 incorrectly numbered 81/, 92 as 192., Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, II, col. 447-449., NUC pre-56, NS 0014920., Thorndike, L. Sphere of Sacrobosco, p. 343., Lacy Collection bookplate, cop. 1., Manuscript notes in margins, cop. 2., Some initials hand colored; gilded initial on leaf 201, cop. 2., Copy 2 imperfect: lacks t.p. The printed dates on line 3, leaf 2a, "Anno dñi. 1506," and the last line of leaf 3a, "M.D.VII.," of Bartolomeo Vespucci's oration have been erased (leaf 2a) or cut out (leaf 3a) and subsequently added in pencil. According to Thorndike (History of Magic, V, p. 164), this oration was delivered in Padua in 1506, in Ferrara in 1507, and published in 1508. Colophon date of "1484" is probably false ("1518" added in pencil beneath colophon). No references found for this edition with a 1484 imprint date (Proctor, BM 15th cent., NUC pre-56, Goff, Hain). This date also conflicts with the dates on leaves 2a and 3a. In addition, the heirs of Octavianus Scotus (named in the colophon) did not begin publishing until 1516 (cf. Norton, F. J. Italian printers 1501-1520). Thorndike calls the Venice 1518 edition a new and superior compilation, and does not mention a prior imprint of this edition.
Sphaera mundi.
Cichi Esculani cum textu.--Expositio Joannis Baptiste Capuani in eandem.--Jacobi Fabri Stapulensis.--Theodosij De speris.--Michaelis Scoti.--Qõnes reuerẽdissimi dñi Petri de Aliaco [et]c.--Roberti Linchoniensis Compendium.--Tractatus de sphera solida.--Tractatus de sphera Campani.--Tractatus de computo maiori eiusdem.--Disputatio Joannis de Monte Regio.--Textus theorice [Georgii Purbachii] cũ expõne Joãnis Baptiste Capuani.--Ptolomeus De speculis., Includes Sacro Bosco's Sphere and various commentaries on it, as well as other works on the sphere., Originally edited by Hieronymus de Nuciarellis., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: A⁴ B-2F⁸ 2G⁶ (2G6 blank), Double columns., Initials; side notes., Woodcut illustration of armillary sphere on leaf 4b., Printer's mark (Kristeller 286) on leaf 253b [i.e. 232], Numbers 181-200 omitted in foliation., Leaf 97 incorrectly numbered 81/, 92 as 192., Riccardi, P. Bib. matematica, II, col. 447-449., NUC pre-56, NS 0014920., Thorndike, L. Sphere of Sacrobosco, p. 343., Lacy Collection bookplate, cop. 1., Manuscript notes in margins, cop. 2., Some initials hand colored; gilded initial on leaf 201, cop. 2., Copy 2 imperfect: lacks t.p. The printed dates on line 3, leaf 2a, "Anno dñi. 1506," and the last line of leaf 3a, "M.D.VII.," of Bartolomeo Vespucci's oration have been erased (leaf 2a) or cut out (leaf 3a) and subsequently added in pencil. According to Thorndike (History of Magic, V, p. 164), this oration was delivered in Padua in 1506, in Ferrara in 1507, and published in 1508. Colophon date of "1484" is probably false ("1518" added in pencil beneath colophon). No references found for this edition with a 1484 imprint date (Proctor, BM 15th cent., NUC pre-56, Goff, Hain). This date also conflicts with the dates on leaves 2a and 3a. In addition, the heirs of Octavianus Scotus (named in the colophon) did not begin publishing until 1516 (cf. Norton, F. J. Italian printers 1501-1520). Thorndike calls the Venice 1518 edition a new and superior compilation, and does not mention a prior imprint of this edition.
Cosmographiae introdvctio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principijs ad eam rem necessarijs.
Author statement from Index Aureliensis pt. 1, v. 2, no. 106.424., Leaves printed on both sides., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: A-D⁸., Printer's device of Melchior Sessa on verso of final leaf., Woodcuts: t.p. ill., printer's device, ills., maps, initials., Running title: Rvdimenta cosmographiae., Abridgement of: Cosmographicus liber, 1524.
Cosmographia in qvatvor libros distribvta svmmo ordine, miraqve facilitate, ac breuitate ad magnam Ptolemæi mathematicam constructionem, ad vniuersamq́ue astrologiam instituens.
Francisco Barocio ... avtore. Cum præfatione eiusdem autoris, in qua perfecta quidem astrologiæ diuisio, & enarratio autorum illustrium, & voluminum ab eis conscriptorum in singulis astrologiæ partibus habetur: Ioannis de Sacrobosco verò 84 errores, & alij permulti suorum expositorum, & sectatorum ostenduntur, rationibusq́[uam] redarguuntur. Præcesserunt etiam quædam communia mathematica, necnon arithmetica, & geometrica principia, nonnullæq́[uam] propositiones, de quibus in toto opere sæpe fit mentio: ac demum locupletissimus index eorum, quæ ipsa Cosmographia continentur ..., Printer's device, initials, side notes., Errata: p. [135], first group., In ms. on t.p.: "Joseph Laurentij ... 1635."
Sphera mundi nouit' recognita cu cometarijs & authorib' in hoc volumine cotetis vz.
Initials, printer's device on verso of last leaf., Includes contributions by Johannes Mueller Regiomontanus and Georg von Peurbach., Colophon: Venetijs impensis nobilis viri-dni Luce Antonij de Giuta Florentini. Die vltimo Junij. 1518., Errors in foliation: number 5 repeated and leaves 181-231, 233 misnumbered 201-251, 253., Signatures: A, B-Z, AA-FF, GG.
Cosmographiae introdvctio : cum quibusdam geometriae ac astronomiae principijs ad eam rem necessarijs.
Author statement from Index Aureliensis pt. 1, v. 2, no. 106.424., Leaves printed on both sides., Imprint from colophon., Signatures: A-D⁸., Printer's device of Melchior Sessa on verso of final leaf., Woodcuts: t.p. ill., printer's device, ills., maps, initials., Running title: Rvdimenta cosmographiae., Abridgement of: Cosmographicus liber, 1524.
Io. Antonii Magini Patavini ... De astrologica ratione, ac vsu dierum criticorum, seu decretoriorum, ac praeterea de cognoscendis & medendis morbis ex corporum coelestium cognitione. Opus duobus libris distinctum. Quorum primus complectitur commentarium i
No. 53, 54 omitted; no. 85, 96, and 98 numbered 86, 95, and 97, respectively., At end: Venetiis, MDCVII. Apud Bartholomeum Rodellam, hæredem Damiani Zenarij.